(b Feb 1897; d Dec 1957). Portuguese architect. He trained in the Escola de Belas Artes, Lisbon, and in the studio of Ventura Terra. His family was connected with the marble industry, and his early works consist of craftsmanlike buildings in the Art Deco style, for example houses at 207–15 Avenida 5 de Outubro (1929; Valmôr Prize), the Cais do Sodré railway station (1925–8), both in Lisbon, and the Caixa Geral de Depósitos bank (1930), Avenida dos Aliados, Oporto. Closer to Functionalism in style are his first public buildings: the Instituto Superior Técnico (1927–35), Alameda Afonso Henriques, where Monteiro taught engineering, and the adjacent Instituto Nacional de Estatística (1931–5), Lisbon. Monteiro was important as a designer of public buildings. His work, most of which involved collaboration with others, was based on a profound knowledge of construction technology; elegant but never daring in style, it used a restricted, easily comprehensible vocabulary. The conservatism of his later style, a synthesis of eclecticism, Art Deco and modernism, lent itself to adaptation according to the fluctuations of official taste in the 1940s and 1950s. Notable examples in Lisbon include the church of Rósario de Fátima (1934–8); the headquarters of the Diário de Notícias (1940); the Fluviais de Alcântara (1942) and Conde de Óbidos (1945) railway stations; Cidade Universitária (1940–57), Campo Grande; and LNEC laboratories (1952), Avenida do Brasil.

• Monteiro, Pardal
  • Portugal, §II, 2(iii): Architecture, after c 1500: Neo-classicism and subsequent developments